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Literary News 1963
 Aldous Huxley, most famous for his 1932 novel Brave New World and counterculture icon to such as The Beatles and The Doors. In 1955 he wrote of his LSD experiences in The Doors of Perception. On his death bed he asked his wife Laura Archera to inject him with LSD. She gave him two injections a few hours apart and he died pleasantly late in the afternoon of November 22nd. So this story never made it very far.
First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.
Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded to William Faulkner for his book The Reivers
Pulitzer prize for non fiction awarded to Barbara W. Tuchman for her book The Guns of August
Non Fiction
1963
 The Feminine Mystique
This book defined Betty Friedan as the founder of the feminist revolution. A harsh voice to the role of women as homemakers represented by June Cleaver.
Friedan went on to co-found the U.S. National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966 and the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) in 1969.
 Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Martin Luther King, Jr wrote this letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama as a response to the white Alabama clergy who said the battle against racial segregation should be fought in the courts not in the streets. The letter is the call to peaceful demonstrations to end Apartheid in the South. Quotable's:
"This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never'."
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Justice too long delayed is justice denied."
 Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity
H.P. Lovecraft (1890- 1937)
Though not recognized in his own time, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was rediscovered in the early 1960's. A reclusive New England bachelor, sexist and racist who wrote horror in the Victorian styling of Edgar Allan Poe. He is most remembered for his Cthulhu Mythos of powerful evil Gods beyond human comprehension. He greatly influenced such writers as Stephen King and Clive Baker and rock bands Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, and Metallica.
Thomas B. Costain - William the Conqueror.
L. Sprague de Camp - The Ancient Engineers.
Richard P. Feynman - Six Easy Pieces.
Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 2: Fredicksburg to Meridian.
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William H. McNeill - The Rise of the West.
E. P. Thompson – The Making of the English Working Class.
Comedy 1963
1963 Best Comedy Performance:
Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah - Allan Sherman
Bill Cosby's first album, Bill Cosby is a very Funny Fellow wins the Grammy and begins his career as the leading comic of the1960's.
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The Spy who Came in from the Cold
